Places matthewglidden Wants to Go

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.